Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlas of Hollywood, bear-necked Cinemactor Victor McLaglen, 52, was sued for nonpayment of a doctor's bill for "monkey gland shots" given to him periodically since 1935. "Well," he hemmed, "the doctor said they would improve my complexion...
...question because no saboteur could so plant a rag as to gum the works at a crucial moment. How it got there remained any man's guess. Some guesses: 1) the propeller whisked it off the ground into the intake; 2) a careless grease-monkey left it near the intake; 3) sabotage...
...Apparently the anti-evolutionist demands to see a monkey or an ass transformed into a man, though he must be familiar enough with the reverse process...
...element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee, appeared in a movie called India Speaks, rode an elephant over the Alps. He grew older (he was 39 last January), but never grew...
...Republican presidential nominee coupled his third term theory with a bitter attack upon the Administration's "pump-priming" and charged that this program was nullified by the President's constant "throwing of monkey wrenches" into the machinery of business and government...